Full Name
Megan O’Connell
Speaker Bio
Dr. O’Connell is a Professor in the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan. She practices in the interdisciplinary diagnostic memory clinic, the Rural and Remote Memory Clinic. She co-leads Team 15 in the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging where she leads the newly developed Rural and Remote Memory Clinic-interventions (RRMCi) for Saskatchewan residents. The RRMCi involves a suite of behavoural and psychological interventions tailored to persons with cognitive impairment or dementia and their caregivers. All interventions are provided by Telehealth or internet videoconferencing to ensure accessibility for rural families. During COVID her team has used their skills in remote delivery of interventions to help numerous older adults access the internet to maintain social connections, they support a local aging group in moving all of their group programming online, and they are offering their support to any families wishing to access the Alzheimer Society of SK on-line supports. Finally, Team 15 is working to create the interdisciplinary RRMC in a virtual format, the vRRMC. She is also a psychometrician, with a particular interest in measurement equivalence, which includes data for equivalency of in-person and remotely delivered cognitive assessments. Dr. O’Connell gave a webinar on how to move your dementia research to a remote format, and the current workshop is a follow-up to this webinar.
Megan O’Connell